If I let you practice martial arts, you'll compress your vital energy ten thousand times?

The Starry Sky Training Camp is located in the ruins of Military Fortress No. 043, outside the Seventh Security Zone.

Far from the city, this place is surrounded by dense, primeval, mutated forests. At night, the terrifying roars of strange beasts can often be heard.

The first day of the special training camp, midnight.

According to the rules of the military instructors, all trainees must take turns to be responsible for patrolling and guarding the perimeter of the camp.

At this moment, on the edge of the dense forest on the east side of the camp.

Zhang Kuangzheng kicked a dead tree branch, his face turning ashen.

The incident of the testing device exploding during the day not only made him a laughing stock in the whole school, but also caused the military examiners to deduct half of his special training rations!

This completely ruined his original plan to shine in the special training camp.

"Damn it! That good-for-nothing Lin Yuan is definitely my nemesis!"

Zhang Kuang cursed through gritted teeth.

Patrolling behind him were several sycophants who usually fawned over him, and Zhao Hai, whose face was full of reluctance.

Zhao Hai was only at the second level of the Qi and Blood Realm, so he shouldn't have been qualified to enter the special training camp at all. If it weren't for his father, who ran a martial arts school, forcibly stuffing three whole boxes of high-grade Qi and Blood Powder into the school and buying him a "logistics observer" spot, he wouldn't have wanted to come to this godforsaken place to suffer.

Not to mention having to patrol in the same group as a hypocritical scumbag like Zhang Kuang.

"Stop spouting nonsense!"

Zhao Hai couldn't help but retort.

"You were the one who insisted on smashing that machine during the day, what does it have to do with Lin Yuan? You messed up your attempt to show off, and now you're blaming others?"

"You fatso, are you looking for death?!"

Zhang Kuang suddenly turned around, glaring at Zhao Hai with eyes blazing with fury, and grabbed him by the collar.

He was seething with anger and had nowhere to vent it when Zhao Hai walked right into his path, which was like walking into the line of fire.

"Do you believe I can throw you into the wilderness right now to feed the beasts, and then report you missing?" Zhang Kuang's tone was chilling, and the pressure of his ninefold blood energy pressed down on Zhao Hai, forcing Zhao Hai to break out in a cold sweat.

however.

Before Zhao Hai could even retaliate...

A strange, eerie gust of wind suddenly blew out from the depths of the dense forest.

The chirping of the mutated insects around them stopped abruptly at that moment, as if some terrifying being had forcibly choked them.

"Who?!"

Zhang Kuang, being at the ninth level of the Qi and Blood Realm, had a keen sense of danger. He immediately released Zhao Hai and drew the alloy battle sword from his waist.

rustling... rustling...

From the darkness ahead, four tall figures shrouded in black robes slowly emerged.

The intense stench of blood and the undisguised, ferocious killing intent rushed towards us as if they were real.

No nonsense.

The man in the black robe who was in the lead took a step forward.

boom!

Four terrifying true energies belonging to the early stage of the Profound Sea Realm descended upon this area like four invisible mountains!

The violent ripples of true energy snapped several large trees in half!

"Xuan... Xuanhai realm?!"

Zhang Kuang's henchmen let out a desperate scream, their knees buckling and collapsing to the ground from the overwhelming pressure.

Zhao Hai's face turned deathly pale, his entire body trembled violently, and even breathing became extremely difficult.

Four experts at the Profound Sea Realm!

There are two major realms in between: the Bone Forging Realm and the Qi Gathering Realm! Let alone these high school students, even if the military instructors from the special training camp came, they would only be defeated on the spot in the face of such a lineup!

"So you're Zhang Kuang?"

The leader of the black-robed assassins had a hoarse voice, like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together, exuding endless coldness and cruelty.

His scarlet eyes, hidden beneath his hood, were fixed on the trembling, arrogant man.

"No...it wasn't me...you've mistaken me for someone else!"

Zhang Kuang was so terrified that he staggered backward, unable to even hold onto the alloy battle knife, which clattered to the ground.

"Hehehe, no need to rush to deny it."

The assassin sneered and slowly drew the serrated longsword from his back, which emitted a ghostly green poisonous light.

"Our archbishop said that you are the successor personally chosen by that grandmaster of external martial arts, and your future is limitless."

"To be able to kill the successor of a Grandmaster is the supreme glory of our Dark Spirit Society!"

Upon hearing the words "Dark Spirit Society" and "Grandmaster's Successor,"

Zhang Kuang's mind went blank with a "buzz," as if struck by a massive thunderbolt, leaving him completely stunned.

Cult Killer!

They actually came all this way to kill me because of the boast I made in front of the whole school during the day?!

"It's a misunderstanding! This is absolutely a misunderstanding!"

Zhang Kuang's mental state completely collapsed, and his face was covered in tears and snot.

He knelt down with a thud and frantically kowtowed, begging for mercy.

"I don't know any grandmaster at all! Everything I said during the day was just me bragging!"

"I'm a piece of trash, I'm nothing! Please, let me go, I'll give you money, the Zhang family has a lot of money..."

Seeing Zhang Kuang's groveling and pathetic behavior, the four assassins' eyes flashed with extreme disdain.

"A grandmaster's judgment is really this bad?"

"Whether it's true or false, better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free. Chop him up!"

The lead assassin let out a cold shout, his figure transforming into a black afterimage. His serrated longsword tore through the night sky, carrying the aura of death, and cleaved straight for the arrogant man's head!

That sharp blade aura made Zhang Kuang feel the true approach of death!

Can't escape!

There's no way to avoid it!

Faced with the absolute speed of the Xuanhai Realm assassin, he couldn't even turn around!

Extreme fear completely distorted the arrogant human nature.

Just as the deadly poisoned dagger was about to strike him...

Zhang Kuang gritted his teeth and reached out with both hands like a mad dog, grabbing Zhao Hai, who was already unable to move due to the pressure!

"Block them!!!"

Zhang Kuang let out a hysterical roar, unleashing all his strength as he used the massive Zhao Hai as a human shield, shoving him fiercely towards the oncoming poison blade!

"You arrogant beast—!"

Zhao Hai watched as the blade, shimmering with green light, magnified infinitely in his pupils, and let out a roar filled with despair and rage.

The poisoned dagger was only half an inch away from Zhao Hai's neck!

At the critical moment!

Clang—!

A sword's cry, sharp enough to pierce the clouds and split rocks, suddenly resounded through the forest.

A blinding silver sword light shot out from the side and rear like a startled swan, striking the side of the assassin's poisoned knife with perfect accuracy!

A tremendous counterforce erupted.

The assassin's longsword was deflected three inches by the force of the impact, and a large clump of hair was shaved off Zhao Hai's scalp.

A stunningly beautiful white figure, like a female war goddess descending from the moon, landed gracefully in front of Zhao Hai.

Su Qinghan!

She wore a white training uniform, holding a three-foot-long, gleaming sword upside down in her hand. Her exquisite face was covered in frost as she stared intently at Zhang Kuang, who was trembling in fear behind her.

"Using a classmate as a shield."

Su Qinghan's voice was icy cold, and she made no attempt to hide the disgust and murderous intent in her eyes.

"Arrogant! You're not even as good as a rat in a sewer."

"Su...Su, the school beauty! Stop them!"

When Zhang Kuang saw Su Qinghan appear, he completely disregarded the embarrassment of his despicable behavior being exposed. Instead, he seemed to have grasped at a lifeline and scrambled to escape towards the camp!

Without even a word of warning, he abandoned everyone without hesitation and fled for his life alone.

"Damn scumbag."

Su Qinghan had no time to chase after Zhang Kuang.

Because the four assassins at the Profound Sea Realm had already surrounded her in a fan shape.

"Tsk tsk, another one coming to their death."

The assassin leader looked at Su Qinghan with a cruel mockery in his eyes.

"Early stage of the Bone Forging Realm? Reaching this level at eighteen is indeed monstrous. Unfortunately, compared to the Profound Sea Realm, you're not even worth a slightly stronger ant!"

"Attack together, and finish this quickly!"

boom!

The four Xuanhai Realm assassins simultaneously unleashed overwhelming true energy, creating four blade beams powerful enough to tear through steel, blocking all of Su Qinghan's escape routes from four directions!

Su Qinghan's pupils suddenly contracted.

She knew very well that fighting an enemy two realms above her own would be a certain death sentence!

Ordinary sword techniques wouldn't last even a second!

"We have no choice but to give it our all!"

A resolute glint flashed in Su Qinghan's eyes. She bit her tongue hard, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the sword blade.

hum!

The sword instantly erupted with a blinding crimson light.

Military-grade S-rank forbidden technique – "Burning Blood Sword Drawing Technique"!

This is a terrifying technique that forcibly unleashes power several times greater than one's own limits at the cost of burning one's own lifespan and foundation!

"Break it!"

Su Qinghan let out a delicate shout, her figure advancing instead of retreating, the blood sword in her hand transforming into a stunning crescent arc of light, crashing head-on into the four Xuanhai Realm blade beams!

Boom! ...

A deafening sonic boom exploded in the dense forest, and the violent shockwave instantly pulverized the vegetation within a ten-meter radius!

One second!

A cracking sound came from Su Qinghan's wrist, her hand split open, and blood spurted out!

Two seconds!

The crimson sword light began to shake violently and dim, like a candle flickering in the wind!

Three seconds!

Click!

With a mournful cry, the longsword in Su Qinghan's hand, made of military-grade alloy, could no longer withstand the combined attack of four Xuanhai Realm experts and shattered into countless pieces of iron!

"puff--!"

The backlash from the forbidden technique, combined with the violent impact of true energy, struck Su Qinghan as if she had been struck by lightning, causing her to cough up a mouthful of blood.

She flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into an ancient tree. Her face was ashen, and she was completely incapacitated.

Just three seconds!

This was the limit she could achieve by burning her life!

Zhao Hai scrambled forward, using his large body to shield the heavily injured Su Qinghan, crying and shouting:

"School Beauty Su, don't worry about me! Run!"

Su Qinghan bit her pale lips tightly, too weak to even grip her sword, yet her eyes were filled with unyielding spirit.

The assassin leader stopped ten steps in front of the two men and raised the poisoned knife in his hand.

"The forbidden technique is good, but unfortunately the level is too low."

"Since that cowardly grandmaster doesn't dare to come out and save his successor, then you can all die!"

The long sword was raised high, carrying the power to cut through everything, and it looked like it was about to strike down.

In this absolutely hopeless dead end.

tread.

A heavy, steady footstep, seemingly treading on everyone's nerves, slowly drifted from the shadows of the dense forest not far away.

tread.

With each step taken.

The surrounding earth seemed to emit an uncontrollable, faint lament.

The leaves within a radius of 100 meters seemed to have lost their gravity, frantically curling upwards!

The wild laughter on the faces of the four Xuanhai Realm assassins instantly froze.

They felt an indescribable, terrifying sense of oppression, like stars falling, enveloping their entire bodies without warning.

Faced with that pure, suffocating physical mass.

The true energy within their bodies was like a mouse encountering a cat, so frightened that it shrank back into their dantian and could no longer be mobilized!

"Who said..."

A hoarse, cold sound, devoid of any human emotion, the scraping of metal echoed from the depths of the dark forest.

"I'm too scared to come out?"

rustle.

The tree branch was violently broken.

A burly figure, nearly 1.9 meters tall with broad shoulders and a thick back, wearing a black trench coat that blended into the night, slowly emerged from the shadows.

The moonlight shone down.

It illuminated the lifeless, pale plastic mask on his face, devoid of any patterns.

White-faced Killer!

Coming!